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Coaching Youth Gymnastics: An Essential Guide for Coaches, Parents and Teachers
By Readhead, Lloyd
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 192
Publisher The Crowood Press
Coaching Youth Gymnastics' is an invaluable resource for both new coaches and also for more experienced teachers. Those who train coaches will also find much of value in the book. The various disciplines of gymnastics are explained, together with how they fit into the framework of international gymnastic competition, and the author discusses various coaching styles and how they might best be applied in different circumstances. Topics covered in this new book include the role of the coach; sports psychology; floor exercise skills; coaching use of apparatus and preparing for competition. Topics covered include: . The role of the coach . Sports psychology . Floor exercise skills . Coaching use of apparatus . Preparing for competition AUTHOR: Lloyd Readhead is a former Director of Coach Education with British Gymnastics and has vast experience of coaching gymnasts and training coaches at all levels. As a British National Coach for Men's Artistic Gymnastics, Lloyd was the architect of the talent selection and development programme tht became the foundation upon which the success of British Men's Gymnastics was built, and has directed and tutored a number of international training courses on behalf of the world governing body for gymnastics (FIG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). SELLING POINTS: . An invaluable resource for both new coaches of gymnastics and also for more experienced teachers. . The va
By Readhead, Lloyd
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 192
Publisher The Crowood Press
Coaching Youth Gymnastics' is an invaluable resource for both new coaches and also for more experienced teachers. Those who train coaches will also find much of value in the book. The various disciplines of gymnastics are explained, together with how they fit into the framework of international gymnastic competition, and the author discusses various coaching styles and how they might best be applied in different circumstances. Topics covered in this new book include the role of the coach; sports psychology; floor exercise skills; coaching use of apparatus and preparing for competition. Topics covered include: . The role of the coach . Sports psychology . Floor exercise skills . Coaching use of apparatus . Preparing for competition AUTHOR: Lloyd Readhead is a former Director of Coach Education with British Gymnastics and has vast experience of coaching gymnasts and training coaches at all levels. As a British National Coach for Men's Artistic Gymnastics, Lloyd was the architect of the talent selection and development programme tht became the foundation upon which the success of British Men's Gymnastics was built, and has directed and tutored a number of international training courses on behalf of the world governing body for gymnastics (FIG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). SELLING POINTS: . An invaluable resource for both new coaches of gymnastics and also for more experienced teachers. . The va